News in Portugal
A hospital in Spain lost 172 embryos, intended for use in in vitro fertilization, when a freezer leaked liquid nitrogen, hospital officials said. The oversight angered would-be mothers, many of whom didn't find out about the April 22 incident until they made appointments with their doctors to have embryos implanted. An official at La Paz Hospital in Madrid told ThinkSpain the ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 18:17:14 -0400
Scotland Yard identified what they describe as ‘people of interest’ during a review of the Portuguese inquiry into the three-year-old’s disappearance in May, ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 18:16:48 -0400
Water Footprint Network announced Global Water Footprint Standard training courses in four countries. The courses are designed for professionals from businesses, governments, and academia including consultancies advising corporations or ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 15:36:13 -0400
Chris Bryan began his World Championship preparations with intent as he was the first man home in the Portugal Open Water Nationals this afternoon. As a qualifier for the home nation and for British Open Water Swimmers, a strong field of 43 swimmers started the race. Bryan started well, keeping with the leaders throughout and, with just over three kilometres to go, he took a commanding lead ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 13:46:35 -0400
British detectives said they had identified a number of "people of interest" in connection with the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, who went missing on holiday in Portugal in 2007. But Scotland Yard said it had not asked Portuguese police to make any arrests in connection with the missing girl. "We are reviewing a significant number of documents and continue to identify ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 13:30:36 -0400
CHENGDU, May 18 (Xinhua) -- A pair of two-and-a-half-year-old giant panda twins that were born in Spain returned to China on Saturday. Pandas "De De" and "A Bao" arrived at the Chengdu Research Base of the Giant Panda Breeding in southwest China's Sichuan Province on Saturday after traveling from a ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 10:36:33 -0400
Real Madrid and Jose Mourinho were sifting through the debris of what the Portuguese coach termed a "disastrous" 2012-13 campaign after Friday's King's Cup final defeat left the world's richest club without a major trophy for the season. The 2-1 reverse to Atletico Madrid at their own Bernabeu ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 10:36:33 -0400
Portugual has become the latest country to allow homosexual couples to adopt, three years after it allowed them to marry. The adoption will be of a limited form, restricted to children belonging to either member of a couple, but gay campaigners described it as significant progress in improving legal protection for children of same-sex ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 04:06:14 -0400
The former chairman of Caja Madrid, jailed on Thursday following an investigation into banking irregularities,has been freed. Considered a flight risk, a Spanish judge had set bail at 2.5 million euros for Miguel Blesa. The inquiry over Caja Madrid's purchase of a US bank in the midst of the economic crisis in 2008 continues. Caja Madrid merged with several banks two years later in 2010 to ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 03:00:39 -0400
Madeleine McCann . After reviewing investigative files on the case, detectives said they had a list of persons of interest, The Daily Telegraph reported. Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell, who heads the Homicide and Serious Crime Command, said the review found "investigative and forensic opportunities." Madeleine disappeared shortly before her 4th birthday in August 2007. ...
Sat, 18 May 2013 01:49:11 -0400